“Seminar,” a play starring Alan Rickman as a preening, acid-tongued teacher running roughshod over a group of tender aspiring writers, opened a few weeks ago on Broadway. Reviews have prompted all the ...

Depending on the geographic locus, the beginning of the semester is upon us and we have begun to do real work, finishing the musical chairs game of finding seats for students in the classes they need ...

In her letter to the editor (June 27), inspired by a review of Danielle Dreilinger’s “The Secret History of Home Economics,” Jane Feder relates how as an eighth grader she regretted being ...

Math major Nicquela Roach says she expected her first-year writing classes to be “just a lot of long papers.” They weren’t. In fact, Roach’s College Writing II professor broke the ice by having ...

Just when we think traditional education is being tossed into the school trash bin, we get reminded that some of the old ways still actually work. Social studies and civics are being restored to ...

DALLAS (AP) — The time-honored skill of typing is still helpful, but it’s becoming less necessary. And that raises the question: Does typing have a future? In high schools and community colleges where ...

Emily Cataneo, co-founder of Redbud, teaches Redbud Writing Project’s first ever class. For some people, writing is not only a creative outlet, but a cathartic one. That's true for "Perry," a previous ...